Photography Techniques

Find out why a flashgun is great for outdoor portraits.

While you're out and about, at the coast or on your foreign holiday snap a few signs.

Wondering what photography gear you should take on holiday? Take a look at our guide.

Peter Bargh shows you how to take better still lifes which, for one, could help you with your ebay listings.

Edwin Brosens shares his tips on photographing flowers, in particularly Witch Hazel.

This article by Edwin Brosens will give you some top tips on how to shoot fossils in the studio.

Peter Bargh takes a look at the fascinating world of macro photography.

Here are 10 tips you need to read before you begin taking photos at someone's big day.

Here are a few tips to help you perfect your photos taken in museums.

Make the most of the light that falls through your windows and shoot some natural light portraits.

Why is it when we go on holiday and need a passport photo we rely on that robot booth to churn out automated pictures at a tune of over £3 per shot? Peter Bargh shows you how to shoot, prepare and print pictures for your passport with ease.

Having a little knowledge about how the camera's shutter speed works can help you obtain pictures with more impact.

Peter Bargh explains how you can use the valuable Layer Mask option of Photoshop to make better colour changes and selections, in this step by step image editing technique.

See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.

The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography

The eyes are one of the most important parts of a portrait, and usually the first thing we notice. Therefore, a small amount of enhancement on the eyes can go a very long way to producing a portrait with real zing.

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Photoshop expert, Terry Steeley, kicks off the first of a new series of tutorials for ePHOTOzine that looks at how to watermark our digital images to protect them from being used without our consent.

Chris Burfoot AMPA shows us how to set up studio lighting.

Peter Bargh explains how you can use the valuable Layer Mask option of Photoshop to make better colour changes and selections, in this step by step image editing technique.

Give your digital images the Holga look with the help of Photoshop and Robin Whalley.

Andy Warhol’s work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.

Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.

Sunrise can be one of the most beautiful natural spectacles to photograph. Here's our handy beginner's guide to to taking some stunning pictures of them.

The eyes are one of the most important parts of a portrait, and usually the first thing we notice. Therefore, a small amount of enhancement on the eyes can go a very long way to producing a portrait with real zing.

As well as allowing you to copy un-replaceable images, a slide duplicator can also be used as a digital input deviceand much more

You can dramatically alter the tones of a black & white photograph by placing coloured filters over the camera lens. It's all explained here.

How to use Photoshop's Layer Masks to merge two images side by side, edge to edge.

How to produce a photo of the same person in various parts of the scene.